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4. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource is any one of: a critical section in a computer program, a file system, and a storage.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein any database instance in the set of database instances is an instance of a relational database.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the database instances in the set of database instances are distributed.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the scale operation is any one of: a scaling out, in which database instances are added, and a scaling in, in which database instances are removed.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the scale operation is any one of: a scaling out where database instances are added, and a scaling in where database instances are removed.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein the new set of database instances include database instances from the current set.
19. The controller of claim 18, wherein the scale operation is any one of: a scaling out where database instances are added, and a scaling in where database instances are removed.
21. The controller of claim 18, wherein the new set of database instances includes database instances from the current set.
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October 15, 2024
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